Improvement in modes of discharging vessels



UNITED STATES `GARRET VINENTS,

PATENT OEEICEo OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

Specilicatirn forming part of Letters Patent No. 4 l.64, (lated February 9, 1864.

.To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that 1, GARRET E. WINENTs, of the city and State of New York, have invented, made, and applied to use a certain new and useful Improvement in Means for Discharging Earth, Manure, Ste., from Vessels; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of 'my said invention, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, wherein l Figure l is a plan, and Fig. 2 is a vertical section, ot' my said means for unloading vessels of manure, Src.

Similar marks of reference denote the same parts.

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The nature yof nlyvsaid invention consists in a raised platform extending over a space into which a cart or car can be drawn or driven, in combination with hinged planks extending to the vessel containing the earth, manure, or other material, the whole being kept as low down as possible, so that the material can be dumped directly into the carts or cars from hand or wheel barrows, whereby a second shoveling of the earth is avoided and the material has only to be carried a short distance, instead of being dumped upon the top of a pile, often of considerable size, to be again shoveled up.

In the drawings, a represents a seow or other vessel containing earth, manure, or other material, either on the deck or filling the entire inside of the vessel. b represents such material.

c is a'dock or bulk-head, which should be about four feet higher than the usual height of such docks-say about six feet above highwater mark-in order that the roadway d may be above high water, but, if desired, the

roadway or space for receiving a cart or car may be below thehigh-water mark,if cemented or otherwise rendered water-tight.

e represents a horse and cart, but a car on a railroad might be used instead.

f is a platform extending from the dock or bulk head out over the car or cart, and formed with an opening, as at l, or solid, as at 2. In the first case the cart is to be beneath the opening l, and with the other shape of platform (2) the ear or cart is to be below the edge ofthe platform.

The plank or planks g g are hinged to the end of the platformf, near the middle of thc dock or bulk-head, and extend out a sufficient distance to rest upon the vessel, or the material in said vessel, and not form too steep an angle for the ascent of men with hand or wheel bai-rows when the tide is low.

The front portion of thewdock orl hulk-head is removed beneath these planks to allow oI the movement of these planks as the vessel falls Withthe tide.

It will be now apparent that tl.e earth, manure, and other material can be discharged by hand-barrows directly into carts or cars with but one hand ling,'and that the earth or other material does not have to be conveyed as far nor elevated so high as now usual, because the carts are as low as possible, compared with the waterfline, andquite close to the vessel, and I lind, practically, that agreat saving is effected by this device over the mode heretofore in use for discharging such material.

As the earth, manure,&c., is shoveled up into the barrows, the scow or vessel may be pushed along, in order Athat the ends of the planks may be as near the point of excavation as possible.

Vhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- The raised platform f, extending over the space occupied by the car or cart, in combination with the hinged plank g, extending to the vessel containing the earth, manure, or similar material, for the purposes, and as specified.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my signature this 4th day of January, 1864:.

G. E. WINENTS.

Vi tnesses LEMUEL W. SERRELL, CHAs. H. SMITH. 

